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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee Page 10 A: You are limited in what you can do here. You also don't know what's underneath. The idea with the new building is to locate it in a position that would allow the existing structure to remain open while construction is going on. Q: Your center aisleway all the way down and the floor plans, those are the things we need to discuss. Mayor: We are getting three primary arguments about what this floor plan needs to be switching around and what needs to be changed. A: The reason we are discussing floor plans is so everyone is on the same base. The big picture is the benefit to the community. You are fixing the problems. If you drop your kids off at Center, if you go for a meeting, there's no place to park. You are resolving the problem with the School. You are bringing it closer. It seems to me that the reason for the meeting is to discuss new versus old. Everyone is getting past new to how do we make this the best we can be? I don't think we are ready yet. This is just preliminary. Q: The picture of the whole layout, what is that line going from here across Wilson Mills? i~ Mayor: A crosswalk. That may be something that may never happen. Eastbound turning north on to SOM is pretty harrowing. That very first slide I showed you, we had three curbcuts on the north side and two curbcuts on the south side. None of them are opposite the other. What we are trying to do is limit and move the curbcuts as far west of the busy intersection as we can and the north on SOM is condensed. Q: On SOM is it going to be ingress and egress or will it be Wilson Mills only? Mayor: That will be full service. A: This is ingress and this is left turn and right turn on to SOM. Mayor: Part of the timetable in this is looking at a traffic study from a standpoint of how this impacts. It's a very very busy intersection. There's limited parking. We are not going to resolve it. We hope to improve it. As pointed out, one of the things we looked at in the survey was should we go somewhere else? It would be great to say you can go to the Library, here or there. The consensus has been do what you can in this location. It's a crosswalk because what we are trying to do is connect north and south and make a passage area. Trying to cross on Wilson Mills and SOM is heartburn and a half. I can't guarantee it's better but by creating some kind of a median shelter, you have a shorter hike to cross the street. That's the thinking. But this is conceptual. Q: Wouldn't you have to have a traffic light?